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diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt b/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt
index e7a0d0668..2d34de0f7 100644
--- a/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt
+++ b/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt
@@ -759,11 +759,12 @@ b. Configure, somewhere before the DATA ACL, the control option to
-Transport post-delivery actions
+Event Actions
--------------------------------------------------------------
-An arbitrary per-transport string can be expanded upon various transport events
-and (for SMTP transports) a second string on deferrals caused by a host error.
+(Renamed from TPDA, Transport post-delivery actions)
+
+An arbitrary per-transport string can be expanded upon various transport events.
Additionally a main-section configuration option can be expanded on some
per-message events.
This feature may be used, for example, to write exim internal log information
@@ -771,33 +772,33 @@ This feature may be used, for example, to write exim internal log information
In order to use the feature, you must compile with
-EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA=yes
+EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT=yes
in your Local/Makefile
and define one or both of
-- the tpda_event_action option in the transport
-- the delivery_event_action
+- the event_action option in the transport
+- the event_action main option
to be expanded when the event fires.
-A new variable, $tpda_event, is set to the event type when the
+A new variable, $event_name, is set to the event type when the
expansion is done. The current list of events is:
- msg:complete main per message
- msg:delivery transport per recipient
- msg:host:defer transport per attempt
- msg:fail:delivery main per recipient
- msg:fail:internal main per recipient
- tcp:connect transport per connection
- tcp:close transport per connection
- tls:cert transport per certificate in verification chain
- smtp:connect transport per connection
-
-The expansion is called for all event types, and should use the $tpda_event
+ msg:complete after main per message
+ msg:delivery after transport per recipient
+ msg:host:defer after transport per attempt
+ msg:fail:delivery after main per recipient
+ msg:fail:internal after main per recipient
+ tcp:connect before transport per connection
+ tcp:close after transport per connection
+ tls:cert before transport per certificate in verification chain
+ smtp:connect after transport per connection
+
+The expansion is called for all event types, and should use the $event_name
value to decide when to act. The variable data is a colon-separated
list, describing an event tree.
-There is an auxilary variable, $tpda_data, for which the
+There is an auxilary variable, $event_data, for which the
content is event_dependent:
msg:delivery smtp confirmation mssage
@@ -805,7 +806,7 @@ content is event_dependent:
tls:cert verification chain depth
smtp:connect smtp banner
-The msg:host:defer event populates one extra variable, $tpda_defer_errno.
+The msg:host:defer event populates one extra variable, $event_defer_errno.
The following variables are likely to be useful depending on the event type:
@@ -820,7 +821,7 @@ The following variables are likely to be useful depending on the event type:
An example might look like:
-tpda_event_action = ${if = {msg:delivery}{$tpda_event} \
+event_action = ${if = {msg:delivery}{$event_name} \
{${lookup pgsql {SELECT * FROM record_Delivery( \
'${quote_pgsql:$sender_address_domain}',\
'${quote_pgsql:${lc:$sender_address_local_part}}', \
@@ -831,12 +832,12 @@ tpda_event_action = ${if = {msg:delivery}{$tpda_event} \
'${quote_pgsql:$message_exim_id}')}} \
} {}}
-The string is expanded for each of the supported events and any
-side-effects will happen. The result is then discarded.
+The string is expanded when each of the supported events occur
+and any side-effects of the expansion will happen.
Note that for complex operations an ACL expansion can be used.
-The expansion of the tpda_event_action option should normally
+The expansion of the event_action option should normally
return an empty string. Should it return anything else the
following will be forced:
@@ -848,6 +849,7 @@ following will be forced:
tls:cert refuse verification
smtp:connect close connection
+No other use is made of the result string.